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New beginnings

Back to the drawing board This post was going to start out with something like ‘I need to accept responsibility for what has happened and move forward’. I intending on just asking for a letter from the OU explain what had happened and transferring to a new degree and just getting on with things. However it’s apparently not going to go like that. They didn’t seem keen on letting me transfer to the maths and physics degree but rather seemed to keep pushing for transferring to the new natural sciences presentation and just doing enough credits to be able to pull my classification up to a 2.1, leaving me no chance of a 1st. As I explained what had happed (yet again!) I got quite upset about it (again!) and it dawned on me, no I wasn’t just going to except what has happened, it wasn’t be fault and it shouldn’t have happened. I then decided to push my complaint about what has happed again. And just to add to everything else I got an email the day after about options if I was to transfer w...

Options options

I have a few options; Accept the 2.2, just carry on working and see what I want to do a bit further down the line.  Accept the 2.2 and apply for the physicians associate course starting in February.  Transfer to a different degree - physics and maths, cut hours down to an absolute minimum at work and try and achieve a better grade, with this I could;  reapply for medicine Apply for one of the nhs scientist training post Go down the masters/ phd route with the option of following a maths, physics or bio route.  Go for a completely different career. Now for the pros on cons.  Do nothing - I’ll get a break, I can just go with the flow and see what I want in a while. I think I will regret it, I will still feel lost. When I want to get going again with whatever it is I want I will feel like I’m starting all over again.  Apply for p.a - it’s only two years, I will feel like I’m on track to something, good pay when I finish. Financially I woul...